The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 23

Sunday Fast. 4. If 1 1 1 e'Jo i tr ii a I'll tes Question for the board: who will run the buses? llmbrook has contracted witf) Safeway since 1963, when the district was formed. We've never had any reason to get another contractor, David Kimmel St hool trirvtpiMUiitm dntiit Unified ofcs ffnes for poor I .1, HWJus service 'Tl Bus Bidder Had Encounter School Bo i wa jurv cre th San Francisco js iinUied Hasf to Sue Ufifj-- Fop ARA official denies bidding claii- K.y A Wk ether p- riV By Robert A. frthm At leatl live Milwaukee-art at hool but firm ar tha ruauini replace Ih problem plagued Racine.

But Co at the contractor (or IJ.JUO Macioe nhwkhikhea One or mure may ba selected a early at hurray, wbea the ikhooi Board Trapoiaiiua Com mi lit ta epcted la review tool tact proposal. Some of lha companie alto hav buffered driver fchoruje. the problem Racine Bu blamed lor mol of III lata bue In ftacirut. Ihe School Board voted last moain ki break it ilue year, la million com ran wan Racine but and to cuntider luing Die company b-rau ol pour service, Official eU-male that nearly half I rut buict got 19 it rvxil 1st or not at all during January Although the I'mflrd St hoot Dtt-Irki bat toughl bU for but contract in the pat, olfiuai decided to rrg tiaie prupuMt with various companies betauM the board men I dec I-ioo to dump Racin But trft UiUe lime fur the bidding procet Companie being curuiderrd ai replacement Inrluda JI ICO ttHCONMN Pewa ke. a contractor that runt about IX) bate ta IS school dumcta On of tboe ditiricit it Kenoaha public school, where performance "hat beta rather acceptable." aaid Chuck Worlffer, ttbool tr asportation tuper-vitoc.

Woelffef prilwd the condl loo of Jelco't buea, but Mid the company had a driver shortage thai hat resulted in about 10 percent of the buse running late. One reason for the thortage It that the contract require drivers to be at lean 21 yean old, he taid. Other cities where Jtlco operate Include Pewauke. Green Bay, Peth-tigo. Schofield, Wiuuu, Marthfleld, NrilltvUle, Spoonrr, Monomonle, Sparta.

Prairie du Chien. Foreit, rovnette. Beloit. and Rotkford. 111.

MARQUARDT BUS SERVICE Cedarburg. which operatet about 270 butet in Cedarburg, Craf- Hamiltuo Suaael School DutrU t. and another 31 la the Arrowhead High School Dittrtil la Bartlaad. The company, alo knowa Safe Una, 1 interested la Raclae't tpeclaj education buting, tald Pretident Bodger Warthauer, He alo Mtd, I llunfc there are driver available in the Racine area The tumpaxty, however, sal had problem in Hartluftd. where II la ui the firtl year oi a new contract, tald Al Zietlow, admtnittraliva aitant at Arrowhead High School.

'Id have to My It hat But been to good beiaute they dofl'i have any driver," he Mid. "They're having enreme difficulty." Zietlow Mid there wa one day when bue dida'i run at all "They (company official) are working diligently, (but) 1 figure we're buying a product and tnould be getting thai product." In School, however. Safe Line'i operation "bant ally ha been very good." Mid Ralph letu. atiittant upenntenden for buiinrt. The company has operated there for about IS year.

Leni Mid hope ihe company won't become loo large if expand to Racine "I don't know how big that (He cine) oprratlon it. but I be reluctant to lot the quality of tervice if they were to expand too greatly," he Mid HANDICARS Milwaukee, operator of tome regular and tprcial education buMi in Milwaukee and of tprtlal education butra In the writ Alltt Wett Milwaukee Schoolt and Wauknha Schoolt The company hat a fleet of about Jul buwt. mott of them van. The company I interfiled primarily in Racine tprcial education contract. Mid John Reddy, director of marketing He Mid Handicabt aJto hat fell the driver thortage.

"We've got a problem. I wouldn't deny that, but we have met Khedule." la Wei Allii-Wett -Milwaukee, "we ve had excellent tervice from Handicab. Mid School Superiniend-en! Sam Cattagna. former deputy tu-perlntendent In Racine. "They've been very prompt." be Mid.

tua. Brow Drer, Maple Dale-lndlaa Hillt. l-oa 'Point Baytide. Glrndale. Ihe Nicolel High School Dutrict.

Sborewoud. and wblleflth Bay "Obviously, lib ihe eatbrr for January we have had a little bit of uiltuuliy wua latent, but at a general ttaiement, hal bea Mllifarlo-ry." uid Bud Rinn, butine manager fur Grafton School. Manjuardt Vice Pretident David Mori taid the driver tupply ha beea light all year, but we've tn Riveting achodulr SAM WAY TRANSPORT Brookfield. operator of butet is fclmbrook, New Berlin and Mutkego, The company alto it one of 12 contractor eerving Milwaukee Public School tr The company, which operatet about 2V butet to ail, probably would cooiidrr Racine't regular but contract, but not the iprciel education contract, aaid Joan Tharlnger, vice prrtldent. "We haven made any o-cition." the aaid.

"It a prrtty big decision to make." In Elmbrwa. where Safrway rum about too butrt, "tl very quality operation." tald tcbool Uanipurutioa director David Kimmel. "They tx-od over backward bad aome tmall problem getting enough driven at the beginning of year, but that i a problem all over the Kate." Elmbrook ha contracted with Safeway Uce lJ, when the dmrlcl wa formed. Mid Kimmel. "We've never had any reatoa to get another contractor." STUDENT TRANSPORTATION CO.

Milwaukee, which operatet 120 butrt in Milwaukee, in the foe Schulte has sold a lot of shoes in 63 years By Divid Pdnkut hen tore. I'll be over tomorrow nen. "I ll tell you how it wa." He observed the occasion Schulie. "In 1917 I went the how when who should 1 run Into but Edwin Stllb and bit brother Harry. after "That wat the ttart of my career.

I've been here ever tince." "Here" It Stilb'i Shoe Thurtday wat a tomewhat without fanfare. to the automobile thow In ipeclal day In the life of Joe Milwaukee. I wa 17. I wa Schulte. Unlet an Interview nutt about automobile.

It wat the ttart of hit 63rd Wednetday with a reporter year in the retail hoe bus I- fai In that category. -j was walking around at "Edwin came up to me and Myi, 'bow would you like to work for 1 Store, Racine's oldest. Schulte itarted work at Stilb's on Feb. 1. 1917, when the business was already 35 years old and operating at 1122 Villa St.

In the Inner city store moved from that location in 1973, to 6216 Washington Ave. in the Western Village commercial complex. The move wat made. Schulte said, because ihe Villa Street neighborhood had deteriorated. "Business was falling on Villa." he Mid.

"Out here, we've picked up new customers and kept most of the old ones. Except those that died. We've got a lot of customers who traded with us for years at (he old store who are still with ui." thocs is about 35 percent of our business We sell a helluva lot of chil-ren's shoes. Another 35 percent is men's shoes The rest is women's," txcept for the name, the Stilb connection with the store hus ended. Don Moe and Schulte own it in partnership.

Schulte has 20 percent, Moe 80 percent. "I had 0 percent and he had 20 percent until about three years ago," Schulte Mid. "He bought me out, except the 20 percent." Schulte, who lives at 1616 Blaine describes himself as semi-retired. He gen- Perry Avenue erally limit his work week to three days, and has for three or four years now. He 77.

"My wife Ella died two years ago," he said. "If I didn't have this place (the store) to go to. I'd go nuts looking at the four walls." Schulte said that in 62 years, he sold only one pair of mis-njates. "That was a pair of E.T. Wright arch preservers.

One was an 11, the other one was ll'V It was my fault. I didn't check the sizes. The customer discovered it about a week later. "That was quite awhile ago. 1940 or so.

Somewhere In there." What does it take to be a successful shoe Mlesman? "You have to give your customer good service. You have to listen to him, and be honest. Tell him the truth. In other words, no bullshit." When Schulte began selling shoes in 1917, styles were of course vastly different from today's. -SM: -iK 1 Lil wiw Store 1 Shop 1 e.

l' If 1 I Shop, Mt'isp1 I i i ii, r-" 1 I I- Parklna Parking' -T j2 shopKo 100,173 1 L. I ri i I 1 I LJ -Ljt When I first got started, Numberi Indicate iquar feet of tpaca Ohio Street Site plan with ShopKo southeast of now- closed TurnStyle store there was nothing but high shoes, men's and women's high-button shoes. There were no low shoes. "Then all of a sudden, It turned over to low shoes for women, straps, and low, medium and high heels. That was probably In the early 1920s." "It's been a wonderful business.

I worked all my life. 1 don't know any different. I've had good health. The Lord has been good to me." "But now I'm getting older. I'm not as peppy as I used to be." Stilb's was founded by Peter Stllb.

He opened for business in May 1882 at 1116 Villa St. Working by the light of kerosene lamps, Stilb made by hand the boots and shoes that he sold. At the begin- ning, a son, Harry J. Stilb, later in dry goods, helped out In the shop. Later, as manufactured shoes arrived in bulk lots of a dozen, often with no lefts or rights, Stilb expanded.

He built a new store at 1122 Villa, adjacent to the old one. It opened in 1900. In 1920, Peter Stllb took his sons Edwin and Eward into the business as part- ners. Peter retired In 1930. In 1952, Schulte, Don Moe and Earl Wllloughby Joined the partnership.

Edwin and Eward retired shortly there- Bftpr development ShopKo key to along Wright and Perry avenues, and three small free-standing buildings. Those buildings are projected for use, My, by a financial Institution, afast-foot restaurant and an apparel store. Including the ShopKo store, the develop- men! would have a total of about 223,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. There would be on-site parking for about 1,600 cars. ShopKo hopes to begin construction this spring for a late-summer or early fall opening, a spokesman said.

A supermarket Is a distinct possibility as tenant for a 30,000 square-foot section of the proposed new construction, and strong interest In leasing space has been expressed by a By David Pfankuchen Journal Tltrwt Staff A 100.OX) square-foot ShopKo discount department store is the key element In a proposal to develop as mall-type shopping center the 22-acre block bounded by Washington, Perry and Wright avenues and Ohio Street. The ShopKo store would be built on nine acres at the southeast corner of the The site is now occupied by the Westgate Outdoor Theater. The Westgate would be torn down. So would the empty former Turn Style department tore-Big food store building, east and north of the ShopKo site. The proposal also Includes an L-shaped extension of the ShopKo building west and nortb number of other prospective tenants, the spokesman said.

The 22 acres Is presently zoned B-2, or community shopping district. Because the proposed development is larger than four acres, It's considered a shopping center and a conditional use permit is needed. A petition for such a permit Is pendir.g before Racine's plan commission, which will conduct a public hearing on the matter Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. In the City Annex, 800 Center St.

The land, along with the empty Turn Style-Big building, 1b owned by a trust controlled by Constance Papas Bacantaln, Chicago, widow of former owner Spiro J. Papas, who died In 1967. (Turn to SHOPKO 2C) Ml- Jjfy'' journal Timet Photo by Mark Her l6erR Joe Schulte, shoe seller.